The Arizona sentinel., 1887-04-16
CHEAP BOARDING.
An Ethereal Theory Which Will Strike Terror to the Hearts of Hotel Men.

An Ethereal Theory Which Will Strike
 Terror to the Hearts of Hotel Men.
 A book has just been published in Boston which no boarding-house keep CT can afford to be without. For if the author is correct there is no reason why human being should be served with meal more than once or twice a year. One of the chapters of the work treats of fasting. He argues that fast ing is conditioned on spirit power, that Doctor Tanner never could have per formed his celebrated feat of absti- hence had he not been a medium. :" Then he goes on to remark: '1 have no doubt that with a suitable Organi- zation. such as is more common in India than in America, fast could be sustained by spirit power for six or twelve months"
 Here we have a grave menace of the boarding-house business. It is only necessary for the boarders of a city to combine, form suitable organization on the best model that India affords and possess themselves of sufficient spirit power in order practically to get rid of the necessity of mourning board bills. To be sure even with suitable organization and spirit power, they would still be required to eat, one meal on New Years day and another on the Fourth of July. But almost every body could count upon being invited out on those two holidays. And even the boarders who were not so fortunate could doubtless find fair to middling board for those two meals at fifty cents meal. On e dollar year for table expenses-win the writer of that pleasing little work, "How to Live on Three Hundred Dollars Year." please tell us how that strikes him? Just as soon as the Boarders' Anti-Meal Asso- citation is ready for business we may expect to see some such advertisements as these in the newspapers:
 WANTED.
 A gentleman and his wife desire board far year. He will expect to be served with JwU meals, one in the spring and the other in the fall. She being of a more ethereal nature, will merely require one meal-to be served in what ever month may be most convenient to all SJ4r- cerned. References exchanged. Address
 'SPIRIT POWER"
 RARE CHANGE.
 Those wishing good board at the lowest terms should call at the Eureka Boarding House. Spirit power always on tap. We guarantee to take any person, no mattJH how large his appetite, and after one infusion of the spirit power leave him so that he will be satis fled with two meals a year, or five meals for three years. It will pay you to call onus.
 WE DEFY COMPETITION.
 Why pay dollar year for board when we can sell you ten meal tickets calling for all the food you will want for five years, including pie, for three dollars and ninety-nine cents. Address the Economy Boarding House Com pany Qimited). Parties not readily yielding to spirit power need not apply.
 We hazard nothing in affirming that the boarding-house keepers of the United States never before were con- fronted with precisely this sort of an amazing emergency. Still, let the boarders beware of rejoicing prema- turely at the prospect of phenomenally cheap board. Suppose, while they are absent in India getting points on or ganization, the boarding house keepers manage to corner the spirit-power market-what then?-M r. Tribune,